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What's up guys? This is David. We are back with another episode of views from the porch and I'm joined with Mrs. Laura Eldridge.

Hey y'all.

Former country music singer and John David Rogers. Current country music singer.

I was gonna sing in like a country accent, but we've been doing so much singing on this thing.

We haven't been doing too much singing. What's up guys? What are we talking about?

We are talking about answering the question, am I really saved?

Because life can get hard and we can make some choices and that can't pie, can go away or that mountaintop moment with God can disappear and it can feel like we're really far from God and in the moment or the season of what I've been doing really bad things.

Even though I've once, you know, began relationship with God but let's say like I get into a place where I haven't really been spending time with him and it's just felt really stale and I've kind of lost that feeling or that side of God.

And then I got into a car wreck in that season.

You know, does that mean because of how I was living right then that I fell off or was no longer saved or maybe was never saved.

And then like specifically, I think a passage in the Bible that a lot of people it kind of can create fear and an unhealthy way is out of Matthew 7 and it just reads this and then David will talk about this.

It says not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord will enter the kingdom of heaven but the one who does the will of my father who was in heaven.

On that day, many will say to me, Lord, Lord did we not prophesy in your name and cast out demons in your name and do many of my works in your name.

And then I will declare to them, I never knew you depart from me, you workers of lawlessness, which is a really heavy passage.

And specifically, I think it says, but the one who does the will of my father who was in heaven.

I think people, they don't know they're asking this but they're asking, am I doing the will of my father because I thought going to church, going on mission trip, sharing my faith.

These things, prophesy, you know, that time prophesied and casting out demons like doing God the things is what was doing the will of God.

So yeah, I don't know that we've ever covered a more important question.

Truly.

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